Table attachment.



T. E. JONES. TABLE ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21, 1911.

Patented Dec 12, 1911..

THOMAS EDUARD JONES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TABLE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1911.-

Application filed February 21, 1911. Serial No. 609,913.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. J ONES, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Table Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in holding devices for cutting tables, and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this class which will remain a permanent part of the table, which can be easily and quickly arranged to receive the edges of the cloth, and which will efiectively sustain the cloth upon the table for cutting or for marking.

lVith the above object in view the invention resides in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully de scribed and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cutting table provided with the improvement. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same, illustrating the rest bar in its raised position.

In the drawings, 1 designates an ordinary cutting table. This table is provided adjacent its ends with posts or standards 2. The standards are secured to the table in any desired manner, but in the device illustrated in the drawings, the lower extremity of each of the standards is provided with an annular flange having a plurality of perforations adapted for the reception of securing elements.

The numeral 3 designates an L-shaped arm, which is pivotally connected with each of the standards 2. The ofiset or vertical member of the arm 3 is secured in any desired manner to a longitudinally extending rest bar 4. This bar A is rectangular in cross section and is provided with a plurality of weights 5, the same being so arranged as to cause the bar to lie firmly upon the table and to tightly compress and retain goods to be cut or marked upon the table.

The numeral 6 designates a handle which is centrally connected with the rest bar, and whereby the said bar may be swung upwardly from the table upon the pivots of the arms 3, so as to allow goods to be inserted between the table and bar. Secured upon each of the standards 2 is a spring member 7. This spring member is so arranged as to contact the arms 3 to sustain the rest bar in its raised position.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be noted that I have provided an eX- tremely simple and thoroughly effective device for the purpose intended, one which engages the entire length of the cloth, which dispenses with the employment of crude articles, such as irons or the like, which are usually employed for holding the cloth upon the table.

The device is extremely simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and can be easily applied to any ordinary table.

Having thus fully described the invention what is claimed as new is:

The combination with a table, of a pair of vertical spaced standards secured to the upper surface of the table, an L-shaped arm pivotally mounted on each of said standards, a weighted rest bar secured to the free ends of said arms, a spring member carried by each of said standards above the pivotal connections of said L-shaped arms, and said spring member adapted to engage the L- shaped arms to maintain the same in a raised position and to exert pressure thereon when in a lowered position.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS EDUARD JONES.

Witnesses WVALTER SHARPLEY, O'rro DEUTSOH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

